If you look at the Taylor series expansion of ex: ex = 1 + x + x2/(2!) + x3/(3!) + x4/(4!)...
If you then make this eix, you get
1+ix - x2/(2!) - ix3/(3!) + x4/(4!)...
If we split this into real and imaginary, we see the real part is
1 - x2/(2!) + x4/(4!) - x6/(6!)...
The series expansion of cos(x) is
1 - x2/(2!) + x4/(4!) - x6/(6!)...
Therefore, the real part of eix is cos(x)
If we look at only the imaginary part of eix, we get
i(x - x3/(3!) + x5/(5!) - x7 / (7!)
If we look at the series expansion of sin(x) we get
(x - x3/(3!) + x5/(5!) - x7 / (7!)
Therefore the imaginary part of eix = sin(x)
Putting this together, we get eix = Re(eix) + Im(eix)
eix = cos(x) + isin(x)
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